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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Meeting and Event Planning (Income $48-$75k) in the Southeast Region

4 Ranked Colleges
248 Degrees Awarded
Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Meeting and Event Planning is the 507th most popular major in the country with 977 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 359 meeting and event planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 248 meeting and event planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in meeting and event planning. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality meeting and event planning programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the meeting and event planning program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree meeting and event planning students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Meeting and Event Planning (Income $48-$75k) in the Southeast Region

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Central Florida landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Orlando, Florida, this large public school awarded 221 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s meeting and event planning students in 2019-2020.

UCF did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Meeting and Event Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $11,161 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Meeting and Event Planning students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend University of Central Florida.

With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The low student loan default rate of 4.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Meeting and Event Planning at UCF

#2

Meredith College

Raleigh, North Carolina
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Meredith College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k. Raleigh, North Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s meeting and event planning degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree meeting and event planning students whose families make $48-$75k list, Meredith has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Meeting and Event Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $21,878 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Meeting and Event Planning students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend Meredith College.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Meredith College Meeting and Event Planning Report

#3

High Point University

High Point, North Carolina
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, High Point University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in High Point, North Carolina, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 18 degrees to qualified bachelors’s meeting and event planning students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree meeting and event planning students whose families make $48-$75k list, High Point has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Meeting and Event Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for High Point is $32,115 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Meeting and Event Planning students whose families make $48-$75k.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Meeting and Event Planning at High Point

#4

Lynn University

Boca Raton, Florida
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lynn University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. Lynn University is located in Boca Raton, Florida and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 8 bachelors’s meeting and event planning degrees to qualified students.

Lynn University Fighting Knights also took the #4 spot in our “Best Meeting and Event Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Lynn University is $36,992 for southeast region bachelor’s degree meeting and event planning students whose families make $48-$75k.

Read full report on Meeting and Event Planning at Lynn University

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Notes and References

References

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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